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collected in this area, but it is unknown whether they were from kills or carrion (Mendelssohn I982, Khalaf-von Jaffa 1990). The desert pallipes tend to approach settlements and people more than do the Mediterranean wolves. In a desert kibbutz (communal agricultural Israeli settlement), wolves entered the cowsheds at night and moved among cattle and calves without molesting even the youngest calves. However, they entered a hen-house and killed chickens. In another desert kibbutz, the wolves visited the area of the hen-houses at night and caught escaped chickens, but entered a henhouse and killed 10 hens when a door was left open. Their main food at both places, however, was chicken carcasses and offal that they scavenged from the garbage dump. These wolves react eagerly to the cheeping of chicks and were attracted from about one kilometer by these cheeps, both live and tape-recorded. Altogether, Palestinian wolves do not suffer from lack of food, as almost all specimens that could be examined were in prime physical condition (Mendelssohn I982, Khalaf-von Jaffa 1990).

Arabian Wolf (Canis lupus arabs). ht tp://imgur.com/gallery/xCBU0 Wolves and hyenas (Hyaena hyaena syriaca) meet quite often at garbage dumps, carcasses and feeding stations. Wolves generally make way for the hyenas which are larger, adults weighing 25-40 kilogram. In one observation, however, a group
Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin – Number 107 – November 2013